Ming-Tsu Lu has had a long and productive career in Taiwanese baseball. He played every position except for shortstop and pitcher during his career but was primarily an outfielder after starting out as a catcher. He won a Little League World Series then starred on the international stage from 1984-1987. Lu began his professional baseball career in Japan on such a hot note that he led to a rule change as a rookie. He only played four years in Japan, then set a record in his native Taiwan, where he ended his playing career. He later was an announcer and coach in Taiwan. He coached for his homeland in both the World Baseball Classic and Olympics.

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• ...how Naoki Takahashi (pictured) got a win and a save in the same game?
• ...what record Daniel Robertson set in his first season in professional baseball?
• ...that Aquino Abreu is the only Cuban hurler to throw no-hitters in back-to-back starts?
• ...that Dave Nightingale was the first national correspondent for The Sporting News?
• ...that Jeff Perry was once traded one-for-one for a future Hall of Fame pitcher?
• ...that Takashi Nishimoto won more games than any other Nippon Pro Baseball player who did not get picked during the draft era?
• ...what was controversial about the style of Dick Young?
• ...what records Santiago Mederos set?
• ...what big hit got Will Scalzitti in the first game played by a Colorado Rockies affiliate?
• ...that Noh-jun Park went from being an Olympic pitcher in 1984 to being honored as one of the top three outfielders in the Korea Baseball Organization in 1994?
• ...what Mexican League record Roberto Vizcarra set?
• ...that Julian Yan cracked over 400 career home runs?
• ...why Jack Krawczyk fell to the 25th round of the draft after setting two NCAA Division I records?
• ...that Tetsuya Yoneda is the all-time Nippon Pro Baseball leader in four different categories?

• Hitoki Iwase (pictured) breaks Shingo Takatsu's record for career saves in Nippon Pro Baseball.
• Tony La Russa becomes the second person to manage 5,000 major league games.
• José Dariel Abreu is named Serie Nacional Most Valuable Player for 2010-2011.
• Gerrit Cole is the first pick of the 2011 amateur draft.
• The University of West Florida wins the 2011 Division II College World Series in their first appearance in that Series.

• 1905 - With Giants leading the Superbas, 11-1, Archibald "Moonlight" Graham (pictured) plays in his only major league game as a defensive replacement. He will become immortalized by W.P. Kinsella’s book Shoeless Joe and the movie based on the book, Field of Dreams.
• 1950 - In an effort to thwart the major league's signing of black players, J.B. Martin, the president of the Negro American League's Chicago American Giants, instructs manager Double Duty Radcliffe to sign white players.
• 1984 - Pete Rose, playing for the Montréal Expos, plays in his 3,309th major league game, passing Carl Yastrzemski as the all-time leader.
• 1990 - For the first time since 1917, two no-hitters are thrown on the same day as the Athletics' Dave Stewart shuts out the Blue Jays 5-0, and the Dodgers Fernando Valenzuela blanks the Cardinals, 6-0.
• 2004 - Diamondbacks pitcher Randy Johnson records his 4,000 career strikeout, becoming the fourth player in major league baseball history to reach the plateau.

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• June 6 to June 8, 2011 - Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft
• May 15, 2011 - The 5th annual Civil Rights Game took place at Turner Field in Atlanta, GA
• March 31, 2011 - Opening Day in Major League Baseball
• February 25, 2011 - The spring training schedule of exhibition games began in both the Cactus League and the Grapefruit League
• February 13, 2011 - Spring Training opened for pitchers, catchers and injured players.

• July 10, 2011 - The 2011 Futures Game is played in Phoenix, AZ
• July 12, 2011 - The 2011 All-Star Game takes place in Phoenix, AZ
• July 15, 2011 - The winner of the 2011 Golden Spikes Award will be announced
• July 24, 2011 - Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Cooperstown, NY
• September 21, 2011 - The 2011 European Cup Final Four begins in Brno, Czech Republic